Entrepreneur Magazine: November 2001

It's a Gift
Grab your Santa suit and load your sack with all the useful gadgets and goodies that will help your clients remember you in the new year.

Natural Order
Customers get their products, clients get their services—but the environment is still waiting on its big shipment of respect.

Out-of-Towners
On the road, in the air, in and out of hotels—with the right gear and the best deals, you'll forget that you even have an office.



Be Your Own Boss Features
Fixer-Upper
If you see it's got plenty of potential, you can get that clunker of a business off the lot and running in no time.

Mixing It Up
They may not have the numbers yet, but women are making waves in the traditionally all-boy world of franchising.

Biz 101
Need a Hand?
Sure, employees would be nice. But what kind and what for?

Everybody's Little Helper
You don't have to make things to make money. Just help people get things done and rake in the bucks!

Innovations
Singular Sensation
It's your best product. Actually, it's your only product. But you can still get big retailers to take notice.

Opportunities
What's New
Offering an alternative to high-priced hair color

From the Ground Up
This franchisee didn't just wing it: He learned how to run a fast-food restaurant by working there first.

Home Again . . . and Again
Buy homes, fix 'em, sell 'em: How these franchisees make money

Smart Ideas
The Kindest Cut
Sure, Oprah cut the feet off her pantyhose, but she's not the one making money off 'em.

What's Your Problem?
Pumping Up Your Client List
Turn a 98-pound weakling business into a profit powerhouse in 3 easy steps!

Almost Famous
e-Lobbying
A presidential sex scandal got their nonprofit off the ground. Now their 300,000 politically conscious members keep it going.

Editor's Note
That's the Spirit


Insurance
It's All in Your Head
Cover what you can't touch.

Legal
Off the Records
When it comes to what's in your employees' medical records, keep your questions to yourself. The less you know, the better.

Management Buzz
Management Buzz 11/01
The case against employers winning discrimination lawsuits and how to rally your employees after a layoff

Smart Moves
Fallen Branches
When subsidiaries fail on their own, how do you bring them back into the fold?

Staff Smarts
Swimming in IT
Surveys show your techies are up to their necks in work and going under. Toss 'em a life raft or something, will ya?

Success Coach 2001
Diamond Minds
You'll have to work for it, but knowledge is your best shot at success.

Breakthrough
Hail to the (Plastic) Chief!
No recount needed—this presidential doll made her maker a winner.

Marketing Buzz
Marketing Buzz 11/01
Tattoos: the new deal-closers, and the marketing benefits of event sponsorships

Real Deal
"Let's Do Lunch!"
The art of negotiating, tinseltown style

Sales Force
Hey, Good Lookin'!
Every customer's crazy 'bout a sharp-dressed salesperson.

Sales Success
Selling Points
Catchy phrases become clichés because they're true. Take a look at these 6 sales maxims and see if you agree.

Tactics
Say What?
How to get customers buzzing about your business

Dollar Signs
In-Out Privileges
Is your business a revolving door for limited partners? As long as the money is there, don't worry if they come and go as they please.

Funds
Little by Little
Ultra-small caps by the handful

Money Buzz
Money Buzz 11/01
Smart stock tips in a bear market and a new private placement exchange for businesses seeking capital

Raising Money
Can I Get a Little Help Here?
You need experience to hit up investors, but no one said it had to be your own.

Tax Talk
Reading, Write-Offs and 'Rithmetic
Saving for schooling now can be tax-free.

Biz Travel
Wait Here
Tips for getting on that flight before next Christmas

Books
Face Forward
Hey, watch where you're going, buddy! Opportunity abounds on the road ahead.

Brand Aid
New Age
Want a grown-up company? Get a grown-up marketing strategy.

Capitol Issues
Can't Find Your Way?
Congress may offer a guide through the labyrinth of federal regulations.

Flash
Flash 11/01
New extreme sports, modernized pogo sticks and owls as the latest home décor motif

Hot Seat
Shut Up, Already!
A surefire way to learn the value of listening: Give the incessant chatter a break.

It Figures
It Figures 11/01
An increase in health promotion programs, the effects of poor customer service and more

Smarts Features
Fed Up?
Slow pay, bundled contracts, low profits . . . is government contracting even worth it?

What's Your Type?
The e-mail font you choose says a lot about you.

Getting Cozy
Offices may become a distant memory once the wide-open workplace comes to town.

"I'll See You in Court!"
Investors don't just cut their losses and go home anymore—now they call their lawyers.

To Your Stealth
Send your PR operatives and undercover product lovers deep into customer territory.

Caffeine-Free
We help a 3-pot-a-day java junkie kick his habit—or at least postpone it for a week.

Boys Will Not Be Boys
Lewdness and rudeness can be a mess for your business—even without mixed company.

Snip, Snip
Cut the technology budget--but don't let your business get stuck in the stone age.

In the Out Door
Does outsourcing leave your computer system wide open to hackers?

Olden Days
Will the stock market suffer as boomers use investments to live on in retirement?

Snapshot
Bill Fishkin
29, editor-in-chief and publisher of Synthesis Weekly in Chico, California

Tech Toy
A Real Handful
The 3-in-1 PC-EPhone can help you consolidate your gadgets.

Wheels
Pump Grump?
Cut what you spend on gas by cutting the gas you spend.

Women
Corporate Comforts
The right relationship with a corporate insider can bring out the best in both worlds.

Buyer's Guide
Display of Affection
They're affordable and easy on the eyes—literally. What's not to love about LCDs?

Cool Clicks
Cool Clicks 11/01
Get a second opinion on your Web site plus business studies and reports from Amazon

Digital Edge
Balance of Power
Low energy costs and falling prices are on your side if you choose LCDs over CRTs.

Gear
Gear 11/01
A new 100GB hard drive and the latest WAP-enabled phone for worldwide communications

Hot Disks
Hot Disks 11/01
A word processor for Palm-based handhelds, keeping tabs on your employees' whereabouts and more

Net Profits
Guaranteed Results
Entrepreneurs are buying prime locations in search-engine results. Should you?

Tech Buzz
Tech Buzz 11/01
Flat-panel monitors of the future and why tech is hot in the nation's capital

Wireless
In Wireless We Trust
Which Americans use mobile technology the most?

IM Is In
Talk on the phone without moving your lips.